Antoni Tàpies Quotes

December 13, 1923 – February 6, 2012

Antoni Tàpies (13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Spanish Catalan artist, born in Barcelona, who from 1947 on, started to paint in a surrealistic style. Through "Arte Povare", under the influence of Eastern calligraphy among other things, he soon developed a spontaneous abstract-expressionism with its own symbolic language.